The Super League seemed to have disappeared from the radar after the resounding failure of its launch in 2021. However, the project led by A22 Sports and fervently supported by Florentino PĂ©rez has never stopped progressing in the shadows. The latest developments confirm this: new legal proceedings have just been initiated against UEFA, a sign that the battle is far from over. And if European football thought it had turned the page, the latest pressure shows that this issue could still reshuffle the cards of the continental landscape.
A game-changing procedure
At the heart of the conflict: a colossal compensation request, estimated at 4.5 billion euros, for the damage caused by UEFA’s historic monopoly on European competitions. A22 Sports, encouraged by several favorable court decisions in Spain and at the CJEU, believes that the continental body illegally prevented the creation of the Super League. If UEFA has eight weeks to respond, the company has already warned: in the absence of an agreement, the legal offensive will continue, and it could become one of the most explosive cases in modern football.
This new episode comes as Florentino Pérez rekindled the flame of his fight during the Real Madrid general assembly. The Madrid president, more offensive than ever, ensures that the Super League is “essential” to reform a football that he judges to be locked in by political and financial interests. He denounces a system “monopolized for 60 years”, criticizes the management of La Liga by Javier Tebas, criticizes the high cost of TV rights… and affirms that Real Madrid will no longer back down. In this structured discourse, the Super League appears as the central tool of his vision.
Super League, a project that is evolving
A22 Sports no longer moves forward with the same face. The Super League, renamed the Unify League at the end of 2024, now offers shared governance: 14 representatives from the clubs, three from the players, three from UEFA and FIFA. A way of showing goodwill and countering the idea of ​​a dissident league exclusively run by the big clubs. But to convince UEFA, it will take more than a remodeled project: above all, it will be necessary to find common ground, which today seems very improbable.
Whether we like it or not, the Super League remains a major player in the European sporting debate. Supported by a determined Real Madrid, reinforced by legal victories and supported by part of the market, it is moving forward without hurrying but without retreating. And if UEFA has won the battle of opinion since 2021, it will now have to face another reality: legally and financially, the file is no longer at all the same. The war has probably only just begun.
